A large billboard has popped up around the city with the smiling face of the Jose Antonio Echeverria and the phrase: “A golden heart full of dynamite.” What would a visitor who didn’t know our history think? Or those young people that repudiate it for the way the history is canned in school?
Read MoreI know of many brains that haven’t been exactly stolen, but they have been squandered by real-life circumstances and personal choices.
Read MoreIn Cuba there’s a popular expression that goes: “He/she who doesn’t have Congolese, has Carabali,” which is a way of saying that black blood runs through all our veins here on the island, no matter how white one’s skin color might be or how thin their features.
Read MoreVeronica won’t be able to smile, eat ice cream or go to the movies with her parents and friends. A murderous bullet snatched away her future this past Friday when a 24-year-old — armed with two rifles and a couple of pistols — committed wholesale slaughter in Greater Denver (Colorado).
Read MoreEvery six months, during the plenary session of the National Assembly, we have the opportunity to confirm whether democracy exists in Cuba.
Read MoreEl Caballero de Paris (the Gentleman from Paris) is back in Old Havana as a living statue. He has returned to alleviate the nostalgia for fabled characters that Havanans endure.
Read MoreIn the late 80’s, a program was conceived by the Cuban health care system. The idea was to create a new kind of physician to assist pregnant women and to treat children and seniors – with all of this directly within the local community.
Read MoreWhen the TV announcer explained that the man — covered in camouflage and wearing a beret — had just come down on the site where the British Crown Jewels are guarded, I recalled my visit to that very same tower.
Read MoreThe life-sized electro-mechanical dinosaurs there at the Metro Park have surprised everyone who has come to see them over the past few months. As the creatures move, blink and roar, those events are recorded by the cameras of children and adults alike. (23 photos)
Read MoreOn three separate occasions it has happened to me. When going into the Coppelia outdoor ice-cream parlor, I have promised myself each time to never come back there again! Nonetheless, the other day when I was passing by there, and saw the line was short I began to either distrust my memory or to have confidence in that eternal relativity of events.
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